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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Approximate author period: c. 1845 AD · industrial
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- Charles Darwin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1845 AD · industrial
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